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Who is John Jay?

Bravo CWS, bravo.

Just out curiosity, whats happens to player control in a strike? I was a toddler when the last strike happened, so don't recall any of the details. Let's say MLB teams went on strike before spring training 2021 - and the 2021 season never happened - do service time and contract just stall? If you have a guy signed for 2021 and 2022, but the 2021 season never happens, is he now signed for 2022 and 2023? Does service time accrue if games aren't being played?

That dude has been spreading BS on Twitter since the day Manny was in Chicago. He knows nothing.

So where is the new poster here that claimed to have sources and said yesterday was the day?

A bunch of posts...thought we may have meaningful news. NOPE....

So much for Monday being D day.

Don’t let Caulfields ramblings get to you!

Get back to work. I may be unemployed if this shit goes until March. Thank god it’s been a slow last few weeks for me.

I'll have what he's having, Sir.

Rosenthal has now corrected to say mutual option. This is much better (and makes wayyyyyy more sense).

To answer my own question, Passan is saying mutual option. I haven't seen the other two correct themselves yet.

Where do you see that - Heyman and Rosenthal saying club.

Yah, that sucks. Pretty significant piece of news. There goes our chance of nabbing him next season. At $16M with a $2.25M buyout, pretty much no shot its not picked up unless he's TERRIBLE in 2019.

$3.5M guarantee. $2.5M in incentives.

This is fucking stupid.

haven't seen the base salary, but Heyman saying he can earn up to $6M with incentives.

Yah, because the 4-year deal was gone because they found another catcher. The Sox aren't finding another 3B in this FA market. Its VERY VERY VERY different.

I'd be shocked if the guarantee was that high.

Tough to bite us too hard when he would have been a FA after 2019 anyway.

Good for Avi. Thought he may need to take a minor league deal. I am guessing $3.5-4M range.

Good for Avi. Thought he may need to take a minor league deal.

Could not possibly disagree more.

I don't want them either based on what they were projected to get originally. I could be interested if on much shorter term deals, but I doubt we see either of them on the Sox.

You can sign Machado, and sign a few stopgap guys that don't cost a ton and should help in 2019 and don't block the future or cost us assets. Don't see what the issue is there. Maybe you catch lightning in a bottle and find yourself in contention in this horseshit division in July. I don't think trading major assets for SP is the right move right now. I would, however, trade a guy like Rutherford a couple other guys between 15-30 for a controllable SP. But I would not move anyone better than Rutherford. Just my personal take.